Crypto

Apex will tokenize the Omnes Mining Note “OMN,” an institutional-grade structured note backed by Bitcoin hashrate.

ECB Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said private digital money cannot scale Europe’s tokenized markets on its own, pointing to Pontes and broader legal reform as next steps. Tokenized deposits and stablecoins need tokenized central bank money as a public settlement anchor if Europe’s tokenized financial markets are to scale, Piero Cipollone, a member of the European Central Bank’s Executive Board, said on Monday. Cipollone pointed to Pontes, the Eurosystem’s distributed ledger technology (DLT) settlement initiative, which is designed to connect market DLT platforms with the Eurosystem’s TARGET Services and provide settlement in central bank money. “Without tokenised central bank money, a seller of a tokenised security may receive payment in an asset they are not comfortable holding – one exposed to price volatility or credit risk – which limits the market’s ability to scale,” Cipollone said in a speech at the House of the Euro in Brussels on Monday. Read more

Facing declining TVL and post-hack pressure, Balancer plans to overhaul its model, cut emissions, and reduce costs to stabilize protocol operations.

Ethereum trades at $2,327 amid whale distribution. Can ETH hold support? Meanwhile, Bitcoin Hyper ($HYPER) raises $32M bringing SVM to Bitcoin. The post Ethereum Price Prediction: Will Critical Support Break? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Nasdaq is wiring its collateral and surveillance systems into Talos’s institutional trading stack to target a $35 billion “trapped” collateral problem. Nasdaq will integrate its Calypso risk and collateral platform and trade surveillance system with digital asset infrastructure firm Talos’s institutional trading tools. The integration announced Monday aims to offer institutional clients a “unified” workflow for managing tokenized collateral and monitoring crypto and traditional assets for market abuse. It aims to ease a bottleneck in institutional tokenization, with Nasdaq citing internal research that roughly $35 billion in collateral sits tied up in “corrective and non-interest-bearing measures.”​ Nasdaq’s integration of its trade surveillance tools means that Talos clients will be able to run alerts for opaque tactics such as wash trading, spoofing and layering across the venues they access.  Read more

Bitcoin drops 1.07% as geopolitical tensions rise. Can BTC hold $67k support before the SEC deadline? Technical analysis and LiquidChain presale data. The post Bitcoin Price Prediction: War De-escalates, But Still Underperforming appeared first on Cryptonews.

The derivatives give users synthetic exposure to major U.S. equities while using Bitcoin and other crypto holdings as collateral, with plans to expand into tokenized assets later this year.

PI is cooling down after its most recent rally. Can bulls retake control? PI Network (PI) Price Predictions: Analysis Key support levels: $0.15, $0.18 Key resistance levels: $0.20, $0.28 PI Correction Appears Completed After the price spiked to 30 cents, PI entered a deep correction, falling below 20 cents. At the time of this post, […]

The analytics platform warned that one entity controls half of SIREN's supply.

XRP is holding steady at $1.4. Where will it go next? Ripple (XRP) Price Predictions: Analysis Key support levels: $1.4 Key resistance levels: $1.6 XRP Consolidates Around $1.4 After sellers halted the bullish momentum at the $1.6 resistance, XRP entered a pullback and held well above the key $1.4 support. So far, market participants have […]

Aave founder Stani Kulechov says the proposal will move to a binding onchain vote to formalize V4’s deployment on Ethereum. Aave’s decentralized autonomous organization backed a proposal to move its V4 protocol toward deployment on Ethereum mainnet, signaling broader support for the upgrade after weeks of governance tension and contributor exits. On Monday, the proposal to deploy Aave V4 on the Ethereum mainnet garnered near-unanimous support from the DAO, with more than 645,000 votes in favor and less than one vote against, and no abstentions, according to data from the offchain voting platform Snapshot. The vote marks a shift from earlier divisions within the Aave community, signaling broad alignment around the protocol’s direction as it moves toward formalizing V4’s deployment. Read more

Gold has now fallen more than 20% from its ATH near $5,600, and its most recent drop became its worst weekly performance since 2011.

Mass adoption risks crypto’s cypherpunk roots. Privacy as a permissionless foundation must reclaim DeFi from surveillance, TradFi and memecoin casinos. Opinion by: Dr Corey Petty, chief evangelist at Logos When early cryptocurrencies were conceptualized, the vision was not one of complex leverage strategies, celebrity rugpulls and government treasuries. Rather, cypherpunks sought, through cryptographic tools, to empower people through the privacy-given freedom to exchange goods and services without the threat of government overreach and mass corporate surveillance The crypto landscape is turning from one of decentralized networks into an extension of traditional finance. Centralized exchanges regularly account for over 80% of daily crypto transactions. If crypto is to hold onto its original ethos, privacy cannot be optional. Read more

Treasury yields and swap spreads could eventually pressure the Trump administration to moderate the conflict, analysts argue.

The SEC’s handling of cases involving Justin Sun and Elon Musk was among the factors that caused the agency’s top enforcement official to quit, according to sources. Update (March 25, 12:18 am UTC): This article has been updated to add a response from the SEC. The US Securities and Exchange Commission's former top enforcement official reportedly clashed with the regulator’s top brass before resigning last week, with part of the reason being how the agency handled cases involving those close to US President Donald Trump. Margaret Ryan, the ex-director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement, wanted to pursue fraud and other charges in cases involving those in Trump’s orbit, but was resisted by SEC Chair Paul Atkins and other Republican political appointees, Reuters reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Read more

The once-touted “Ethereum killer” is in extreme pain, wallowing in the depths of a bear market, but a bottom may be finally forming, say analysts.

[PRESS RELEASE – Tel Aviv, Israel, March 23rd, 2026] Playnance has introduced the first Democratic Social Gaming Protocol, a new model for decentralized, participation-driven digital economies. In an industry where platforms are built to profit from user activity, Playnance introduces a fundamentally different approach: a system where users can participate in protocol-based rewards linked to […]

Hostplus’s crypto ambition is attempting to meet rising investor demand, even as volatility keeps rivals on the sidelines.

The restructuring comes as analysts say older DeFi models built on token incentives and emissions are increasingly under pressure.

NovaBay Pharmaceuticals was founded in 2000 as a biopharmaceutical company developing eye care products and is now betting big on the Sky protocol and stablecoins. Shares in NovaBay Pharmaceuticals jumped nearly 19% after the company announced it would change its name to Stablecoin Development Corporation as part of its strategic crypto pivot. NovaBay Pharmaceuticals CEO Michael Kazley said in a statement on Monday that the company’s plan going forward is to access cash flows within the growing stablecoin economy. “The name change to Stablecoin Development Corporation reflects our conviction that stablecoins represent the most compelling structural opportunity in digital finance,” he said. Read more